By Mike Collett-White VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice Film Festival opens on
Wednesday with the world premiere of "The Black Dahlia," a
sepia-tinted throwback to 1940s Hollywood based on a grisly
real-life murder that remains unsolved to this day.

By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for the Internet hype.
"Snakes on a Plane," a camp thriller that generated an
unprecedented tsunami of online hysteria during the past year,
crawled into the No.

By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedy "Little Miss Sunshine," a
top movie from January's Sundance Film Festival, debuts in
theaters on Wednesday bringing with it the fear that the
"Sundance curse" may hurt it with mainstream audiences.

LONDON (Reuters) - One in four Britons went to the cinema
at least once a week last year, making British film fans
amongst the keenest in the world and defying a global decline
in ticket sales, the UK Film Council said on Saturday.

By Gregg Goldstein NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It's an epidemic. In the
New York City area, well over 50 film festivals have sprung up
over the last few decades, most of those in the last 10 years
alone.

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